1384
No. 30 of 1915.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
Penalty for personation of emigrant.
Penalty for contravention of rule made under section 44, furnishing false return, fraudulent shipment, etc.
General penalty.
54. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and abets in falsely and deceitfully personating, an emigrant or intending emigrant at any attendance before or examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or any officer appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or an Emigration Officer, required by this or any other enactment for the time being in force relating to Asiatic emigration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
55.-(1) Every person who commits any contravention of any rule made under the provisions of section 44 shall be guilty of an offence and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars in respect of such contravention.
(2) The keeper of any hotel or boarding-house who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other particulars required of him, or who obtains or attempts to obtain by fraud, intimidation or force the shipment of any emigrant or intending emigrant, and every person who aids or abets such keeper in so doing, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
(3) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended or cancelled by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
56. The owners or charterers of any emigrant ship and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by any such ship, and any master or other person in charge of any such ship, who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice or other document under this Ordinance, shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
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1384
No. 30 of 1915.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
Penalty for personation of emigrant.
Penalty for
contraven- tion of rule made under section 44, furnishing false return, fraudulent shipment, etc.
General penalty.
54. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and abets in falsely and deceitfully personating, an emigrant or intending emigrant at any attendance before or examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or any officer appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or an Emigration Officer, required by this or any other enactment for the time being in force relating to Asiatic emigration, shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
55.-(1) Every person who commits any contravention of any rule made under the provisions of section 44 shall be guilty of an offence and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars in respect of such contravention.
(2) The keeper of any hotel or boarding-house who know- ingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other particulars required of him, or who obtains or attempts to obtain by fraud, intimidation or force the shipment of any emigrant or intending emigrant, and every person who aids or abets such keeper in so doing, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
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(3) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended or cancelled by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
56. The owners or charterers of any emigrant ship and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by any such ship, and any master or other person in charge of any such ship, who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be
• bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering . any forged certificate, permit, notice or other document under this Ordinance, shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
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